North-central US faces daily bouts of severe weather
Through early week, the most common hazards within the strongest thunderstorms will be large hail and powerful wind gusts which can snap trees and down power lines.
Just like snowflakes, no two tornadoes are the same. While there are more than a dozen different types of tornadoes, AccuWeather’s Ariella Scalese explains four that can occur when there is severe weather.
The North Central states will be an active zone for severe weather into the middle of the week, AccuWeather forecasters warn. Although widespread outbreaks of damaging storms are not expected, some areas could be slammed by large hail and powerful wind gusts.
Clusters of thunderstorms will track along the northern and eastern edges of a sprawling heat dome anchored over the southwestern United States over the coming days. This will put places that haven't experienced as much severe thunderstorm activity in the last month or so in the crosshairs of potentially dangerous weather conditions.
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"There have only been five active severe weather days in North Dakota since the start of May and three in Minnesota," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Chad Merrill said. Both states are in the risk zone for severe weather through Monday, with the risk lingering in Minnesota into Tuesday.
Due to the widely separated nature of the storms, some communities may be spared entirely from the rounds of severe weather, even though they remain at risk for several consecutive days.
Severe thunderstorms begin to shift southeastward this week
The rinse-and-repeat pattern will continue through the week, with daily rounds of severe weather expected across the North Central states into Wednesday. Similar to this weekend, large hail and damaging wind gusts are expected to be the most common hazards each day, with an isolated tornado or two possible.
On Monday afternoon and night, AccuWeather forecasters have issued two moderate risks for severe weather. The first area includes much of Nebraska and the second highlighting much of southern Minnesota.
By Tuesday, severe thunderstorms are forecast to sink slightly farther across the Plains states, stretching from northeastern Colorado to southern Minnesota.
Heavy to severe thunderstorms will spread even farther to the east during the middle of the week into places such as Chicago, St. Louis and perhaps Detroit.
AccuWeather Forecast Intern Cris Kubatko contributed content to this article.
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